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just_passing_through says

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=What+do+you+think+the+MOST+IMPORTANT+purpose+of+bitcoin+is%3F

Haven't clicked.

I was asking you to state YOUR opinion.

As you know, I think it's a wasteful Ponzi scheme.

just_passing_through says

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=What+do+you+think+the+MOST+IMPORTANT+purpose+of+bitcoin+is%3F

I clicked

"The purpose of bitcoin is to provide a digital currency that allows people to make online secure, anonymous transactions"

Is that what you think is the MOST IMPORTANT purpose of bitcoin is? If so you can just wait for the CBDC.

Onvacation says

Is that what you think

I'm sure you can find whatever you're looking for in there if you look harder. I'm not going to google for you again. Do your own DD.

just_passing_through says

I'm sure you can find whatever you're looking for in there if you look harder. I'm not going to google for you again. Do your own DD.

I did. Bitcoin is a scam.

And Google hides truths.

Onvacation says

just_passing_through says

The kitco (gold peepo) host is sexy as hell too!

Michelle Makori

Nah. She's a fucking walking billboard for Benjamin Moore paint. Sorry I don't need clown makeup paint on a woman. She's probably ugly as fuck at 6am..... after her paint is all over her pillow.

Dudes that fall for that shit are doomed for failure unless it's just to get laid. It's the definition of a con artists to a T. She's looking for a sugar daddy.

Onvacation says

I did. Bitcoin is a scam.

Fair enough...

Onvacation says

And Google hides truths.

Whoa is me!

WookieMan says

She's looking for a sugar daddy.

Sez the guy with the sugar momma... (you know you set yourself up for that!)

just_passing_through says

Onvacation says

And Google hides truths.

Whoa is me!

Not as if everything we do isn't tracked.

I'm just saying when you use Google you're only going to see what they want you to see.

Well, department heads have fled Binance, but no mentions of how many regular employees have left. Maybe the rank and file are waiting for the criminal complaints to some forward.

Takes some guts (or stupidity) to have any assets at any Crypto Exchange.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/binance-plunges-crisis-senior-execs-205742831.html

Didjaknow Blackrock is now big on Bitcoin and is launching a spot Bitcoin ETF?

Eric Holder says

Didjaknow Blackrock is now big on Bitcoin and is launching a spot Bitcoin ETF?

I'm the one that first posted that. Look at comment 1998.

We will see if it get approval.

If your going to dick around with crypto... learn from all the other failures... Non-Custodial is where you need to go... Do not let someone hold it for you.
This whole CryptoSpace has gotten out of control, and the"Scum of the earth" want you to trust them to hold your assets. Screw that.
I've been burned by that...

Chalk it up to the school of hard knocks... you can intercourse Blackrock...

If you ever want to redeem crypto, you are gonna need exchanges. Without them there is zero liquidity.

So there's gotta be suckers for there to be even a modicum of price discovery.

just_passing_through says

WookieMan says

She's looking for a sugar daddy.

Sez the guy with the sugar momma... (you know you set yourself up for that!)

Self made with my help... no inheritance or anything like that at all. Blue collar, kind of loser parents if I'm being honest. But yes, I do have a sugar momma NOW. Wasn't that way in the early years. She thought she was getting the sugar daddy.

I have a knack for figuring things out. Specifically financial issues. Creative things, all legal. Like buying our house with cash even though we didn't have the cash or credit to get a loan. I don't think most people realize how many tools are at their disposal to create wealth and get things done. It freaks my wife out, but if I literally needed $1M tomorrow, I could have it wired to me. Network, network, network. The more people you know and stay in touch with, the more money you'll make. More job opportunities even in fields like tech.

https://fortune.com/2023/07/08/bitcoin-miners-will-struggle-to-survive-halving-electricity-costs-debt-payments/

Bidenomics hits crypto.

Bitcoin is "old news".. all of those that thought would make $$$$ by Mining need to sell off their old technology to somoeone who doesn't know the technology is not efficient.
New Technology (believe it or not) is making the cost of mining better... but not a game changer.
when you have over 2000 cryptocurrencies, their are winners and losers... every day..
Miners will jump from one coin to another. the miner administrators can flip a mining machine with a laptop, and a batchfile... take their earnings and swap to something more stable.
I have 8 years in the space. I am not a know it all.
You have your due diligence to uphold... unlike someone who reads chapter one of a book, and think they're an expert.
Unless someone makes a miner that can run on water... forget about it. I no longer mine.. its all been sold on ebay.etc.etc. to someone who likes to tinker or has shit for brains... or free electricity.

seesaw says

You have your due diligence to uphold...

What do you mean?

Do you think it's an investment and not a speculative, wasteful, scam?

Onvacation says

Cash says

"eat to much dick"

How can you make money in crypto without finding a greater fool?

You can't. Crypto is a scam.

Onvacation says

Bitcoin over $30k again.

Dumped down to $26k last week.

Bitcoin says

Onvacation says

It's like real gold only better.

Cant argue with that.

@bitcoin Glad you're still alive.

Have any of your views changed on bitcoin?

"fiat" is definitely fucked. It's worth what you can buy with it until it isn't.

Make sure you use your vacation time while you can.

Coin dealers being de-banked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yW8IVqaqdM

Onvacation says

Bitcoin says

Onvacation says

It's like real gold only better.

Cant argue with that.

bitcoin Glad you're still alive.

Have any of your views changed on bitcoin?

I've written you at least 4 times in the last year specifically asking if you're alive with no response.

You only promote Bitcoin when it's up not down. This means you promote it to dump it.

When you next disappear, I won't care if you're dead and I will show no concern.

seesaw says

This whole CryptoSpace has gotten out of control, and the"Scum of the earth" want you to trust them to hold your assets.

Like that asshole SBF:

https://patrick.net/post/1379598/2023-06-18-corrupt-federal-prosecutors-preparing

just_passing_through says

Coin dealers being de-banked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yW8IVqaqdM

Aaaand another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZbaD8KVSlo

Claims it's happening nation wide to dealers, jewelers etc.,

‘$150,000’ By 2025—Bitcoin Braced For An ‘Unprecedented’ Wall Street Price Earthquake
https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1763036440517075353

Last night I heard some talking head say the bitcorn ETFs did more in 4 weeks than the gold ETFs did in 20 years.

just_passing_through says

Last night I heard some talking head say the bitcorn ETFs did more in 4 weeks than the gold ETFs did in 20 years.

Bitcoin hysteria or mania

everyone piling in as The Mooch (Anthony Scaramucci) said on Bloomberg TV that all fund managers will average about 3% of their total portfolio in Bitcoin efts like Blackrock or Fidelity

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AD says

everyone piling in as The Mooch (Anthony Scaramucci) said on Bloomberg TV that all fund managers will average about 3% of their total portfolio in Bitcoin efts like Blackrock or Fidelity

3% was discussed 4 years ago and if that happens the total market cap of bitcorn will be higher than the total market cap of gold. Four years ago it was BTC-1-Trillion, Gold-10-Trillion.

BTC should be back to about 1-Trillion right now.

We shall see if that happens in this run...

just_passing_through says

the total market cap of bitcorn

Market cap implies number of shares times price per share. Millions of bitcoins are probably lost forever and HODLER's are going to HODL.

One reason bitcoin is so expensive per share coin is because of an artificial scarcity of "coins" and an overabundance of gamblers.

Onvacation says

Market cap implies number of shares times price per share.

Correct

Onvacation says

Millions of bitcoins are probably lost forever

Not probably definitely

Onvacation says

overabundance of gamblers

Everything in life is a gamble

just_passing_through says

Everything in life is a gamble

No.

There are investments that take capital and labor and produce something useful.

Bitcoin consumes capital and labor in the hope that some greater fool will pay to keep the system going.

No product. No service. Just a resource suck.

Up another $5K since my last reply haha..

Onvacation says

just_passing_through says

Everything in life is a gamble

No.

There are investments that take capital and labor and produce something useful.

Bitcoin consumes capital and labor in the hope that some greater fool will pay to keep the system going.

No product. No service. Just a resource suck.

Yeah, and you measure the value of a stock against earnings. If its earnings or profits grow, then the stock price grows accordingly.

Still stocks should appreciate if bitcoin appreciates due to inflation from a fiat currency system.

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I still say Bitcoin is a social experiment.

GNL says

I still say Bitcoin is a social experiment.

A modern day Tulip investing experiment ? So whoever owns the experiment is trying to study how the public reacts to Bitcoin as investors and bystanders ?

They are trying to measure the rate of hysteria associated with a speculative investment like Bitcoin ?

What happens eventually with Bitcoin ? Will it eventually subside or settle to matching the performance of the S&P 500 or perhaps silver or gold ?

The only crypto I have is about 8300 dogecoin. I bought at 3 cents and had already cashed out my cost basis of $500 when dogecoin was at 50 cents after peaking to around 70 cents. I'll sell when dogecoin gets to $100 or $0.01.

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AD says

The only crypto I have is about 8300 dogecoin. I bought at 3 cents and had already cashed out my cost basis of $500 when dogecoin was at 50 cents after peaking to around 70 cents. I'll sell when dogecoin gets to $100 or $0.01.

When I used to play blackjack in Tahoe I would always take a couple chips off the table when I was winning. Do they even have $2 blackjack tables anymore?